Riddhi Dastidar

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Riddhi Dastidar (@gaachburi) is a writer and reporter in Delhi. They won the 2020 TFA Award for Creative Writing and their fiction has been shortlisted for the 2021 Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize among others. Prize. Riddhi is a South Asia Speaks Fellow and was selected for the Emerging Writers Residency 2024. Their fiction appeared in ‘A Case of Indian Marvels’, Aleph’s anthology of India’s finest new writers. In 2021, they founded the collective Mutual Aid India with disabled and queer friends.

Discuss variants of narrative structures and spend some time working on an initial draft of an essay (or fiction) with Riddhi in their generative writing session.